Electroacupuncture promotes neural stem cell proliferation and neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of rats following stroke via upregulation of Notch1 expression

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 6911-6917

  Zhao, Junhong ^a,b   Sui, Minghong ^a   Lü, Xiao ^a   Jin, Dongmei ^a   Zhuang, Zhiqiang ^a   Yan, Tiebin ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Electroacupuncture; Neural stem cells; Notch1; Stroke

Indexed keywords

NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HES1 PROTEIN, RAT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NOTCH1 PROTEIN, RAT;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STROKE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; STROKE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84943651871     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2015.4279     Document Type: Article

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